Front-End Cloud Services

Christopher E. Rodriguez

** ********* **. *** *

Marina Del Rey, CA 90292

Phone: 310-***-****

***********.******.*********@*****.***

https://github.com/chriseugenerodriguez

Technologies

Languages:

Front-End

HTML, HTML5, CSS, CSS3, SCSS, XML, JSON, YAML, Tailwind CSS.

Middle-End

AJAX, Javascript (ES5, ES6), jQuery, RXJS, NXJS, Typescript, Lodash.js, React.js, Redux.js

Back-End

Node.js, Express.js, Gulp.js, Vite.

Software:

WAMP, MAMP, Terminal, Bash, Powershell, NPM, Homebrew.

Version Control

Git, SVN.

Database:

MySQL Workbench, MySQL, MsSQL, MariaDB, MongoDB.

Cloud Services:

Heroku, Microsoft Azure Web Services, Google Cloud Services.

Dev. Ops

Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Github.

API:

Google Maps API, Bing Translator API, TinyPNG API, Swagger API.

Framework:

Angular CLI, Angular 2-16, Laravel, Foundation, Bootstrap, Material Design.

Testing / QA:

Protractor, Jasmine, Cypress, Sinon, Chai.

Web Application:

Ektron CMS, Wordpress CMS, WooCommerce (eCommerce), WebSphere, Sitespect, AEM, Headless CMS.

Project Management

Jira, Confluence, Trello, Basecamp, Kayako, Assembla, Azure Dev Ops.

Web IDE:

Microsoft Visual Studio, Sublime, Brackets, Dreamweaver, Notepad++, Webstorm, Visual Studio Code.

Work Experience

Ascendion, Mountain View, CA: Senior Software Engineer 04/2023 – 07/2024

Advancing a state-of-the-art internal metric ticketing research tool for management to visualize important data sets within different departments of Azure Web Services.

Conducted a thorough audit of the entire system operations throughout the development cycle, including release management, coding practices, code reviewing, and gatekeeping. Identified missing or inadequate facilities that pinpointed inefficiencies for management.

Implemented robust CI/CD pipelines and established code policies for the front-end, back-end, and data-syncing processes (database). This initiative aimed to automate and analyze code smells, vulnerabilities, and risk points within release and deployment cycles.

Enhanced the testing coverage for the existing front-end, which previously lacked comprehensive testing. Developed a comprehensive testing suite using Jasmine, significantly increasing test coverage from 30% to 90%

Led the migration of the micro frontend component of an Angular remote application to a React wrapper within the Vite framework. Later, undertook the complete rewrite of the existing Angular application into React, starting from scratch.

Collaborated with management in the hiring process, actively participating in interviews and assisting in selecting potential new team members.

Technologies: HTML5, SCSS, Angular 15, JavaScript, TypeScript, RXJS, Cypress, Azure DevOps, Jasmine, React 18, Vite, Redux, TailwindCSS

Cognizant, New Jersey, CA: Senior Technical Associate 03/2021 –3/2023

Engineered custom solutions for diverse range of assignments and technologies by developing onto existing platforms; contributed towards 6+ projects on-time with varying stakeholder requirements and Agile methodologies, meeting 100% of deliverables.

●Engineered Angular solutions for large scale client projects within Agile methodology, providing technical leadership and collaborating with distributed development teams across different time zones. Clients included:

oBanking: M&T Bank, PNC, Wells Fargo.

oHealthcare: Kaiser Permanente, Cigna, Anthem.

oInsurance: Pacific Specialty Insurance.

●Contributed to documentation, testing, and styling, outside of primary objectives and my individual contributor requirements.

●Streamlined technical documentation process by developing a standardized format and creating 50+ technical documents; reduced documentation time by 30% and improved team efficiency.

Technologies: HTML5, SCSS, Angular 5-13 SPA, ES5, ES6, RXJS, backbone.js, Swagger API, NPM, Git, VSCode, Cypress, Jenkins, .NET, AEM.

Vaco LLC, San Francisco, CA: Software Consultant 11/2020 – 03/2021

Assisted in contributing to the development of a new corporate CRM tool for Google Pay using Angular; reduced customer support issues by 25% and increased sales by 17%.

●Worked with a small team as an individual contributor to output features from high priority tickets within individual stakeholders.

●Developed organization documents within this product to help smooth out onboarding. Feedback for smoother ticket creation with necessary information for less back and forth, etc.

Technologies: HTML5, SCSS, Angular 7 SPA, ES6, Typescript, Jasmine, Prismic, CMS.

IPG - Media Brands, Brentwood, CA: Lead Front End Developer 12/2018 – 05/2020

Developed and architected Out of Home project within Unity, a corporate platform, for advertisers to purchase and place outdoor and transit ads; led a team of 5 front-end to finish custom solution within 8 months.

●Developed from scratch written in JavaScript a Google Maps API driven search tool for ad searching, negotiating, and purchasing.

●Coached an offshore team to deliver high quality work, set strategy and delegate during late hours to fulfill sprint objectives.

●Had highest scrum velocity out of the corporate software ladder, averaging above 35% per sprint.

Technologies: HTML5, SCSS, Angular 5 SPA, ES5, ES6, Swagger API, NPM, Git, VSCode, Cypress, Jenkins, Google Maps API, Headless CMS.

Phenomenex. Torrance, CA: Lead Angular 2 Developer 05/2017 – 12/2018

Developed next-generation software for Phenomenex's internal systems and external websites using the latest FED technologies; built fast and reactive models for modern and older viewports, resulting in a 50% reduction in page load time.

●Led the front-end team to solve critical tasks for modern and effective development within different departments; collaborated with cross-functional teams to reduce the number of bugs by 80%. Improve workflows of existing data entry systems by 90%.

●Implemented DevOps protocol for continuous deployment and FED workflow architecture for fast and intuitive modeling; streamlined the development process and reduced the time-to-market by 100%.

●Built SCSS BEM aesthetic skeletons for encapsulating data structures; promoted the use of best practices, resulting in a 40% reduction in CSS code duplication.

Technologies: HTML5, SCSS, Angular 2-5, ES6, Express, Node.js, Swagger API, YAML, NPM, Git, Photoshop, VSTS, VSCode, Terminal, Angular CLI, Microsoft Azure Web Services.

Mattel. El Segundo, CA: Front End Developer (Contract) 10/2016 – 05/2017

Worked on optimizing the various brands of Mattel to help increase revenue and improve customer experience. Using best practices to overlay visual improvements to current page design within their current workflow.

●Conducted A/B and Multivariate tests for Hot Wheels, Barbie, Fisher Price, and Mattel websites, resulting in a 20% increase in page views and 10% increase in average order value.

●Delivered weekly test results to different departments and communicated recommendations for future projects; collaborated with Product and Design teams to incorporate findings into website redesign.

Technologies: HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, Websphere, Node.js, Tortoise SVN, NPM, Gulp, SCSS, Image Compression API (tinypng), Git, Photoshop, JIRA, Terminal, Sitespect, and PowerShell.

BeachBody LLC. Santa Monica, CA: Front-End Developer (Contract) 06/2014 – 09/2016

●Built theme pages from mockups and added responsive styles to fix different responsive widths for their PiYo website.

●Created Google Maps plugin integrated with WordPress custom post type to feed custom marker data and filter results.

●Added media queries to make respective websites (mobile v. desktop) for google maps infowindow, search fields, etc.

●Learned agile work environment / procedures from development to implementation, ROE, and project management.

Technologies: HTML4, CSS2, Git, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Gitlab, JIRA, Google Maps API, Confluence, PHP, Wampserver, Wordpress, Javascript, jQuery, MySQL Workbench.

American Jewish University Bel Air, CA: Junior Front-End Developer 02/2013 – 05/2016

Built on-top of existing technologies to improve how forms are created, validated, and automated emails are sent.

WCCE ticket purchasing redesign (list/view), loading required files, modules that part of views and controllers.

Integrated, developed, designed, and coded on-top of existing frameworks within different departmental sub-sites using foundation, and bootstrap frameworks.

Developed and coded HTML emails for 20 email campaigns and created responsive landing pages.

Technologies: HTML4, CSS2, SVN, Dreamweaver, jQuery, Sharepoint, .NET, Kayako, Campaign Enterprise, Ektron, and Visual Studio

Education

California State University Northridge –

08/13 - Major: B.S. Business Management

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